Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Are Hitting US Campaign Targets Again

Microsoft says the GRU hacking group has attacked hundreds of organizations over the past year, many of them tied to the upcoming election...

Russia's GRU Hackers Hit US Government and Energy Targets

A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus...

The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About

The campaign known as Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years...

NSA Warns of Sandworm Backdoor Attacks on Mail Servers

The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has been spotted exploiting a vulnerability in the internet’s top email server software, according to the National Security Agency NSA. The bug exists in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software, an open-source offering used on Linux and Unix-like systems. It...

NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Russian advanced persistent threat APT group Sandworm exploiting a vulnerability—CVE-2019-10149—in Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to send a specially...

Russia Is Trying to Tap Transatlantic Cables

The Times of London is reporting that Russian agents are in Ireland probing transatlantic communications cables. Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables which carry internet traffic between America, Britain and Europe. The cables enable millions of people to communicate and allow financi...

The US Blames Russia's GRU for Sweeping Cyberattacks in Georgia

By calling out Russia for digital assaults on its neighboring country, the US hopes to head off similar efforts at home...

The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers and Assassins

Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency...

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe. Dubbed LoJax, the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware...

Justice Department Indicts 12 Russian Nationals Tied to 2016 Election Hacking

The United States Justice Department on Friday announced 12 indictments against Russian nationals, accusing them of engaging in a “sustained effort” to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. According to Rod Rosenstein, United States deputy Attorney General, all 12 defendants are members o...

US Identifies 6 Russian Government Officials Involved In DNC Hack

The United States Department of Justice has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials for allegedly playing a role in hacking DNC systems and leaking information during the 2016 presidential race. Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies concluded...

NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls

This week brought new public evidence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. On Monday, the Intercept published a top-secret National Security Agency document describing Russian hacking attempts against the US election system. While the attacks seem more exploratory than operational ­--...

DNC Hacked, Research on Trump Stolen

Two separate APT groups believed to have ties to the Russian government have been fingered in attacks against the Democratic National Committee resulting in the theft of research done by the DNC on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Researchers at Crowdstrike, called in to investigate b...

CVE-2009-2584

Off-by-one error in the optionswrite function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which trigge...

CVE-2009-2584

Off-by-one error in the optionswrite function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which trigge...

CVE-2009-2584

Off-by-one error in the optionswrite function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which trigge...

Stack overflow

Off-by-one error in the optionswrite function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which trigge...

CVE-2009-2584

Off-by-one error in the optionswrite function in drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.30.2 and earlier on ia64 and x86 platforms might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted count argument, which trigge...

CVE-2009-2584

CVE-2009-2584 affects the SGI GRU driver in Linux kernels up to and including 2.6.30.2, on ia64 and x86 platforms. The vulnerability is an off-by-one error in the options_write function of drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruprocfs.c that may allow a local user to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via a craf...

Linux Kernel SGI GRU驱动单字节漏洞

Bugraq ID: 35753 CNCAN ID：CNCAN-2009072204 Linux是一款开放源代码的操作系统。 Linux sgi-gru procfs接口实现存在内核栈缓冲区溢出，本地攻击者可以利用漏洞对系统进行拒绝服务攻击，可能导致以内核上下文执行任意指令。 optionswrite函数的"count"参数是用户可控制的，利用这个漏洞可以写'\0'字节到内核堆栈上大多数任意位置，可能导致任意代码执行。 Linux kernel 2.6.30 Linux kernel 2.6.29 4 Linux kernel 2.6.29 1 Linux kernel 2.6.29...